A new Kansas law is making it so that health departments across the state can no longer prohibit public gatherings in the event of an infectious disease outbreak.

Health experts fear the virus will take hold in other U.S. communities with low vaccination rates and that the spread could ...

The child, who is not a Missouri resident, was visiting Taney County in the southwest part of the state and was diagnosed ...

There were nine active cases in Vanderburgh County as of Thursday, fewer than five of which involve children, according to ...

Humans have been struggling with this horrific lung disease for at least 9,000 years. And now, a new outbreak is plaguing Kansas City.

The sudden and severe US cuts to grants from the world's largest health research funder threaten to unravel the medical ...

Under a new law, local health officials will have to prove “probable cause” to make someone quarantine. Orders about public ...

The Kansas Legislature overturned the governor’s veto of a bill that opens state and county health officials to civil action ...

An outbreak of tuberculosis within Kansas City in the United States has been ongoing since Jan. 2024 and has highlighted new ...

A confirmed case of tuberculosis at a Joliet high school earlier this week was the second in the Chicago area this month, leaving many to wonder if they should be cautious about the disease often ...

Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Kansas Governor Laura Kelly has vetoed a bill that would take authority away from local ...

As of April 2, there are 24 confirmed measles cases in Kansas, all confined to the southwestern part of the state. “This marks the first measles outbreak in Kansas since 2018, and before that, ...